Datasets

For recent publicly available datasets, please check here:

  • Baustian, M.M., Lain, E.J., Bargu, S., Cheng, J., Mize, S., Myers, R., Liu, B., Messina, F., and Georgiou, I.Y. 2025. Phytoplankton pigment data collected from surface waters in the Lake Pontchartrain estuary, Louisiana, from November 2024 to May 2025: U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P13URVEC 

  • Powell, C., Baustian, M.M. and M. Polito. 2025. Stable isotope values from coastal Louisiana mangrove and salt marsh communities in May 2016. Dryad data release. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sbcc2frjg 

  • Stagg, C.L., Creamer, C.A., Waldrop, M.P., Manies, K.L., Baustian, M.M., Laurenzano, C., Aw, T.G., Haw, M., Merino, S.L., Schoolmaster, D.R. Jr., Sevilgen, S.N., Villani, R.K., and Ward, E.J., 2024. Plant, soil, and microbial characteristics of marsh collapse in Mississippi River Deltaic wetlands. U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YJ25DP 

  • Wang, Y., Liu, B., Baustian, M.M., Moss, L., Dausman, A., and Pahl, J.W., 2023. A subset of 2017 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan model output to estimate climate change mitigation potential of Louisiana’s coastal area: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94Z2MZV. 

  • Esposito, C., Beltran Burgos, M., Baustian, M.M., and D. Di Leonardo. 2022. Vegetation thresholds for sediment transport at Cubit's Gap from 2018-03-07 to 2019-08-21. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/H3.x878.000:0001 

  •  Schoolmaster, D.R., Stagg, C.L., Creamer, C.A., Laurenzano, C., Baustian, M.M., Waldrop, M.P., Ward, E.J., and Aw, T., 2022. Spatiotemporal dynamics of soil carbon following coastal wetland loss at a Louisiana coastal salt marsh in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain in 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P916JH3L

  • ·Baustian, M.M., Stagg, C.L, Perry, C.L., Moss, L.C., Carruthers, T.J.B., and M. Allison. 2021. Long-term carbon sinks in marsh soils of the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain are at risk to wetland loss. (2015 – 2017): U.S. Geological Survey Data Release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P93U3B3E

  • Baustian, M.M., Stagg, C.L, Perry, C.L., Moss, L.C., and T.J.B. Carruthers, 2020. Short-term soil carbon accumulation rates from marsh types across a salinity gradient suggest implications of climate change. (2015 – 2017): U.S. Geological Survey Data Release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9M5YSOL

  • Stagg, C.L., Baustian, M.M., Perry, C.L., Carruthers, T.J.B., and C.T. Hall. 2017. Organic matter decomposition across a coastal wetland landscape in Louisiana, U.S.A. (2014 – 2015): U.S. Geological Survey Data Release. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7639MVK

  • Meselhe, E, Baustian, M.M., and M.A. Allison. 2015. Basin Wide Model Development for the Louisiana Coastal Area Mississippi River Hydrodynamic and Delta Management study.  Mississippi River Hydrodynamics and Delta Management Study Data Portal. http://mrhdms.coastal.louisiana.gov/